Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
PORCINE
hoggish, piggish, piggy, porcine, swinish
(adjective) resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy; “piggish table manners”; “the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father”; “swinish slavering over food”
gross, porcine
(adjective) repellently fat; “a bald porcine old man”
porcine
(adjective) relating to or suggesting swine; “comparison between human and porcine pleasures”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
porcine (comparative more porcine, superlative most porcine)
Of or pertaining to pigs.
(derogatory) Overweight to the extent of resembling a pig; morbidly obese.
Anagrams
• coprine, poncier, preonic
Source: Wiktionary
Por"cine, a. Etym: [L. porcinus, from porcus a swine. See Pork.]
Definition: Of or pertaining to swine; characteristic of the hog. "Porcine cheeks." G. Eliot.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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